"Nothing
compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride." ~ John F. Kennedy

"If
you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on." ~ Lance
Armstrong

"It's
not about the bike" ~ Lance Armstrong

"Learn
to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live." ~ Mark Twain,
American author and humorist

"Life
is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use." ~
Charles Schultz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip

"Life
is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep
moving." ~ Albert Einstein

"I
thought of that while riding my bicycle." ~ Albert Einstein on the
Theory of Relativity

"The
bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine." ~ John
Howard

"Whenever
I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race." ~ H.G.
Wells, English author

"As
a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the
bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I
lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at
night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I
even kept it in my bed." ~ John Lennon

"It
is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels." ~ Heinz Stucke,
German long-distance touring cyclist

"The
bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists
and poets." ~ Christopher Morley, American author and editor

"Melancholy
is incompatible with bicycling." ~ James E. Starrs

"The
bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old
and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without
shocking the entire community." ~ Ann Strong

"Think
of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world." ~
Grant Petersen

“Don’t
buy upgrades, ride up grades.” ~ Eddy Merckx

"Ride
lots." ~ Eddy Merckx

"As
long as I breathe, I attack." ~ Bernard Hinault

"The
bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind." ~ William Saroyan, Nobel
prize winner

"The
sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of
a gun being cocked." ~ Amy Webster

“This
is the style of racing I think suits me best. It’s incredibly
satisfying, and maybe a little bit unexpected, but I will take
it.” -
Alex Howes VeloNews

“It is good that I landed on my
left side and not face-first. Probably I have had so many crashes as a
pro that I automatically curled up and prepared myself for the crash in
less than a second.” - Tony Martin CyclingNews

“Zygomatic
fracture, broken jaw, broken eye socket. I can’t remember the accident
and was unconscious for about 15 minutes. Annoying, but it can happen
just anytime, anywhere."
- Tony Martin VeloNation

“Paris-Roubaix
is a race that is one of the most important in terms of experience
playing a big role. It is such a hard race…your body takes a pounding
unlike any other race on the calendar. I hope the team will look for me
in the later part of the race to help a super Thor or a super Ale.” -George Hincapie VeloNation

“I
am really disappointed, but the real victory here is that I survived
the collision and that I’m alive to meet that challenge at
all. It’s
amazing that all I did was break my fibula.”
-Levi
Leipheimer VeloNation

“I
am happy to be alive — absolutely. At first I was in shock. Then I was
thinking, ‘now I am going to be hurt for the race.’ Then I thought,
‘maybe I cannot race at all.’ Then I thought, ‘I could be dead right
now.’ I can feel for all those people who have been involved in
accidents.”
-Levi
Leipheimer VeloNews

“There’s no engine, there’s just
something to give you a bit more comfort.” -Fabian Cancellara CyclingNews

"People
do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should
be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human
beings. Why should sports men and women get punished harder than people
in the normal world?” -David
Millar CyclingNews

“I was isolated before the
Monteberg. It’s as simple as one wheel; someone loses the wheel in
front of you, and you’re gapped.” -Mark Cavendish VeloNews

“I
hope they don’t do like last year. It’s never been my tactic to just
follow one guy. Of course, if you give Fabian five seconds, it’s hard
to get it back, but I’m not going to be the guy who is always behind
him. If he attacks I’ll have to follow him, but I’m not a guy like
[Filippo] Pozzato, always following.” -Philippe Gilbert VeloNews

“I’m far from being the best
climber, far from being the best sprinter, far from being the strongest
guy on the road… You become more tactically astute from not being the
strongest guy there, so you really have to learn how to race, and learn
how to be clever to win the races. You’ve got to learn tactics.” -Simon Gerrans CycleSport

“Yesterdays
race gets filed in my #worstdaysofmycareer list. Something was VERY
wrong. No explanation, but I let down an incredible group." -Mark Cavendish VeloNation

"Sagan. I think
he’s the favorite, just looking at the way he’s riding here this week.
He climbs with the front group most days and then he’s right in the mix
in the field sprints as well. He’s been quite impressive." -Tyler Farrar VeloNews

"Life
goes on whether you win or lose for sure. So I'll try to relax tonight
and then in the morning as the race approaches, hopefully I'll remain
calm and easy."

“If
there’s someone who wants to take a punt on Cipollini, I’m here. Who
knows what will happen, but if the world of cycling will allow me to
present myself at an important race like the Giro d’Italia, I would be
the happiest man in the world.” - Mario Cipollini
CyclingNews

“For
drugs such as HGH and EPO, the window for using them is in the
preparation phase, not actually during the Games. The testing during
the Games is a fantastic deterrent but it's a pretty stupid athlete who
would be using drugs during the Games.” - David Millar
VeloNation

“There are few more impressive
than Cancellara when he's on. He doesn't just win, he destroys."
- Jered
Gruber PEZCyclingNews

“One
day on the 2006 Tour, Tom Boonen, who was reigning world champion, was
near the front, slowing things a little. At the moment I
launched my
attack, he hit me hard on the back. I stopped, he yelled at me and I
said to him: ‘You can shout if you like, but don’t touch me.’ I was the
small French guy he could hit because I’m thirty centimetres smaller
than him." - Thomas Voeckler CyclingNews

“I’m
not hiding it, I didn’t go well. I think I suffered more than I thought
I would from my inactivity. But I wouldn’t be putting myself back in
the game if I wasn’t convinced I could return to my old levels. You
know well that I don’t like just to scrape a
living.” - Danilo Di Luca CyclingNews

“Where
are those who have ridden with Ricco now? Those who were with him then,
where are they now? In this world of sharks, nobody, nobody is there.
Mercy and love are words we are taught as children. We must give him
strength and we must reach out for him. I want him to remember the good
of cycling. It will not be easy, because he is still wearing the badge
and thinking of riding and of revenge."
- Mario
Cipollini CyclingNews

“Generally,
the whole level of the peloton is much higher because they had such
good weather throughout November and December in Europe and I think
that's really showed – those guys usually come to Qatar and Oman to
train but this time they all turned up for the win."
- Mark
Renshaw CyclingNews

“I believe that our industry is
losing the war against the Chain Reactions, the Wiggles, the
Amazons." - Steve Flagg BicycleRetailer

“I think the biggest thing is
listening to the body more. Everyone can say that, everyone says that,
’sick is sick eh’, like the Belgians say that. And you can have people
say ‘oh you need to rest more’ but athletes don’t learn that through
listening to people, they learn it through being in a deep hole and
finding their way out." - Amy Dombroski PodiumInsight

“Jan
Ullrich missed his last chance to win back even a little of his
credibility, because he failed to come clean." - Dagmar Freitag CyclingNews

“The
CAS decision itself wasn't so exciting. What will be much more
interesting is what Jan [Ullrich] will say. He knows what he can say.
In any case, it is of course silly that such a finding is only issued
six years after his last race." - Rolf Aldag CyclingNews

“It’s
a sad day for Alberto Contador; it's a sad day for cycling. I think
people want to kill off cycling. I’m the first to say that we
need good
anti-doping tests, but I think that in cycling they go too
far.” - Eddy MerckxVeloNation

“Our legal system failed us.
This is what happens when you have a lot of money." -
Frankie AndreuCyclingNews

“...to
be honest with you, I think they [the ex riders of the Garmin-Cervélo
women’s team] are satisfied with it, I certainly hope they are
satisfied with it. We really busted ourselves to make [sure] that the
athletes
are taken care of, that their contracts were honored, and that they
were going to be on a team that is one of the best in the
world.” - Jonathan Vaughters VeloNation

“As
Tour winner I could have signed a contract worth millions for several
years. We demand more than 5.6 million euro.” -
Michael
Rasmussen VeloNation

"Cabled
shifting won't be obsolete, but for the foreseeable future electronic
shifting will be the top of the line for Campy and Shimano. It’ll get
lighte, smaller, better, cheaper, and more widespread, and eventually
all pro teams sponsored by the big two will be on
it." - Andy Shen NYVeloCity

"No sport is 100
per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the
normal world, not everybody is clean." - Eddy
Merckx SBS

“The
International Cycling Union (UCI) condemns the publication this week of
information concerning the Alberto Contador hearing before the Court of
Arbitration for Sport (CAS)...
The case of Alberto Contador is now
in the hands of the CAS Panel. The UCI calls upon the sporting
community to await the result of the deliberations of the panel with
serenity and due respect for the judicial process.” -
UCI Press Release road.cc

"Bike racing's just a hobby I
happen to be very good at. It's not a matter of life and death." -
Robbie McEwenPodiumCafe

“We
demand that the evil UCI empire end its reign of tyranny on the women’s
peloton. We have grown tired of working in the ‘sweat shops of the
cycling world.’ We will take strategic action and restrained yet
violent verbal warfare to achieve our goals, beginning with our march.
We shall throw stones at the UCI’s glass house of
oppression.” - Giorgia Bronzini [aka Bronze
X] Cyclismas

“His
[Andy Schleck's] problem is Fränk and vice-versa. How they
rode the
Tour de Suisse is an example of that. They’re incomprehensible. They
cancel each other out in turn. I’d like to see him more decisive, but
instead he attacks and after four pedal strokes he turned around. He
gives the impression of being a radio-controlled rider.” - Mario Cipollini CyclingNews

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